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  <chapter id="quickstart">
    <title>Quick start</title>

    <para>
        This quickly covers the standard steps for installing and deploying Kea.
        For further details, full customizations, and troubleshooting, see the
        respective chapters in the Kea guide.
    </para>

    <section id="quick-start">
      <title>Quick start guide for DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 services</title>

      <orderedlist>

        <listitem>
          <simpara>
            Install required run-time and build dependencies. See <xref
	    linkend="build-requirements"/> for details.
          </simpara>
        </listitem>

        <!-- We may need to replace it with the link to a downloadable tarball
        once we have it. -->
        <listitem>
          <simpara>
            Checkout the latest Kea revision from the Git repository:
            <screen>$ <userinput>git clone git://git.kea.isc.org/kea</userinput> </screen>
          </simpara>
        </listitem>

        <listitem>
          <para>Go into the source directory and run the configure script:
            <screen>$ <userinput>cd kea</userinput>
$ <userinput>autoreconf --install</userinput>
$ <userinput>./configure [your extra parameters]</userinput></screen>
          </para>
        </listitem>

        <listitem>
          <para>Build it:
            <screen>$ <userinput>make</userinput></screen>
          </para>
        </listitem>

        <listitem>
          <para>Install it (by default the installation prefix is <filename>/usr/local/</filename>,
          so you need root privileges for that step):
            <screen>$ <userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
          </para>
        </listitem>

        <listitem>
          <para>If you wish to run a DHCP server for IPv4, you need to set up and start
          the kea-dhcp4 server:</para>
          <orderedlist>
          <listitem>
          <para>Edit your configuration file for DHCPv4. <xref linkend="dhcp4-configuration"/>
          describes the configuration choices available; example DHCPv4 configuration can be found in
          doc/examples/kea4.</para>
	</listitem>

        <listitem>
          <para>Start Kea DHCPv4 server (as root):
            <screen># <userinput>kea-dhcp4 -c /path/to/your/kea4/config/file.json</userinput></screen>
          </para>
        </listitem>

        <listitem>
         <para>Test it; for example, use the
         <ulink url="http://www.isc.org/downloads/DHCP/">ISC DHCP client</ulink>
         to send DHCPv4 queries to the server and verify that the client receives a
         configuration from the server:
            <screen>$ <userinput>dhclient -4 eth0</userinput></screen>
         </para>
        </listitem>
        </orderedlist>
        </listitem>

        <listitem>
          <para>If you wish to run a DHCP server for IPv6, you need to set up and start
          the kea-dhcp6 server:</para>
          <orderedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>Edit your configuration file for DHCPv6. <xref linkend="dhcp6-configuration"/>
          describes the configuration choices, and some example DHCPv6 configuration can be found in
          doc/examples/kea6.</para>
	</listitem>

        <listitem>
          <para>Start Kea DHCPv6 server (as root):
            <screen># <userinput>kea-dhcp6 -c /path/to/your/kea6/config/file.json</userinput></screen>
          </para>
        </listitem>

        <listitem>
         <para>Test it; for example, use the
         <ulink url="http://www.isc.org/downloads/DHCP/">ISC DHCP client</ulink>
         to send DHCPv6 queries to the server and verify that the client receives a
         configuration from the server:
            <screen>$ <userinput>dhclient -6 eth0</userinput></screen>
         </para>
        </listitem>
        </orderedlist>
        </listitem>
      </orderedlist>

    </section>

  </chapter>